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The Netherlands - Following last year's successful participation, Alcons Audio will again be exhibiting with its general product line and the AV / Digital Cinema product line at Integrated Systems Europe in Amsterdam. Main focus this year will be on two products.

As a result of the increasing interest in Alcons sound systems for sound with picture, Alcons will be introducing the CRMS system. The three-way reference system is designed for A/V projects, high quality screening rooms, but also for high quality home theatre installations. A special design feature is that the MHF section acts both as MHF section for the main/front system, as well as full-range surround system. This results in a uniform sound stage throughout the entire listening area.

In addition to the CRMS, the LR7

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UK - Scottish PA company, Ward Steedsy Associates employed its Allen & Heath iLive digital mixing system to manage the recent People's Postcode Lottery Winners' Party in Rutherglen, Lanarkshire, where nearly £2m was handed out to prize winners.

Hosted by Scottish presenter, Angus Purden, the Big Postcode Rollover Party included an exclusive live performance from chart-topping rapper, Chipmunk. Ward Steedsy's iLive system, comprising an iDR10 MixRack and iLive-112 Control Surface, managed FOH audio for the event.

"This was the fourth time we have used our iLive system for a Postcode Lottery Party and we have previous event settings saved on a USB stick, so the set-up time was greatly reduced," says joint MD, Steven Ward. "We provided all the FOH kit, including separate feeds for the video tape, the camera crew's headphone mixes and the

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USA - Sting is to lend his support to the Hear the World initiative, a global hearing loss campaign that helps raise awareness about the importance of hearing and the consequences of hearing loss.

Sting joins a host of other celebrity ambassadors including Jude Law, Elle Macpherson, Annie Lennox, Jerry Hall and Peter Gabriel. Each supporter has been photographed by musician and photographer Bryan Adams holding the Hear the World pose - with one hand cupped behind their ear to convey conscious hearing.

Over 800 million people worldwide, more than 16 percent of the world's population, have hearing loss and experts predict this will to increase to 1.1 billion by 2015. In the UK an estimated 8.5 million people have hearing loss and struggle for up to 15 years before seeking advice. Studies have shown that this has a significantly negative effect on a person's social, emotional and

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Indochine X PixMob Fan Immersion

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's - 40 thousand LED pixels on a ceiling!!! Indochine's whirlwind tour transports fans to another level of the live experience - immersing them from floor to ceiling with PixMob's X4 wristbands, and an LED ceiling made entirely of its NOVA Minis! With the vision of Indochine's creative team, PixMob used its LED fan-technology to turn attendees and venues into an ocean of effects, and a starry sky of LED magic. Très très cool!

Read more about the Indochine tour in the latest issue of LSi

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UK - The London Eye New Years' Eve celebration has become a regular event for Stage Electrics, marking a successful beginning to the New Year.

Following eight consecutive years of supplying elements of lighting equipment and staff, this was the first year that Stage Electrics was the sole supplier of all the lighting for the New Years Eve event for Jack Morton Worldwide. This year's event stepped up a level with lighting designer Durham Marenghi making use of 14 Clay Paky Alpha Beams 700s, which were programmed by associate designer Paul Cook, to form 50ft tall digital count-down clock, on the Shell building façade, achieved using some precise indexing of the oblong slot Gobos.

The cues were triggered by a satellite time code via MIDI into the console, which set the stage, attracting over half a million New Year revellers, who again braved the cold to usher in the New Year as

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UAE - The Abu Dhabi Formula 1 (F1) weekend saw a plethora of related events and entertainment taking place around the city. This programme was known as Yasalam, the final element of which culminated in four nights of after-race concerts on Yas Island over the race weekend. Held at Ferrari World, Abu Dhabi, the headliners were Beyoncé, Jamiroquai, Kings of Leon and Aerosmith.

Concert and festival lighting designer Steve Shipman used two grandMA full-size consoles, five MA NSPs (Network Signal Processors) and three MA video stations with the MA VPU (Video Processing Unit) software. Shipman stated, "We chose the MA system primarily because of the networking capabilities - we had a large system. Having two operators running two consoles networked in Multi-User-Mode was a convenient way of controlling everything including the LEDs of which we had plenty. We ran the

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Italy - Located close to the Tuscany city of Pisa, Ippodromo San Rossore is one of Italy's most progressive horse racing venues and has recently enhanced its facilities with the installation of a large Lighthouse Technologies LED screen, the biggest to be installed at an Italian racecourse.

Supplied and installed by Firenze-based Project Italia, the 8 x 5 panel (9.6m x 5m) R12-ER 12mm screen utilises a Lighthouse LIP-XGA controller. Located opposite the main entrance to the racecourse and with excellent visibility from both the main stand and clubhouse, it is used to show live coverage of races from different cameras around the track, action replays, advertising and interviews.

Completed on 17 October 2009, just before the venue's first race meeting of the new season (which is also one of its biggest events of the year), the installation was supervised by Lighthouse Italy proj

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Canada / Hong Kong - Yan Fook Church located in Kowloon, Hong Kong, delivers Sunday worship in HD to 9,000 people using a Ross Vision 1M Multi-Definition Production Switcher.

Yan Fook Church chose Vision for its HD capabilities, modular design, and quantity of outputs allowing the ability to air content to various destinations throughout the church.

"Vision's modular design will allow Yan Fook Church to expand and upgrade in the future," said Koon Shing Lo, senior technical manager, Yan Fook Church. "Plus, we now only require two operators to run Vision giving us the extra resources to also do post production."

"Ross has long been a popular choice for houses of worship all over the world," said David Ross, CEO, Ross Video. "Vision offers reliability and flexibility that churches need in an affordable package."

(Jim Evans)

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India - New Mumbai-based rental company Omkar Audio has chosen Proel amplifiers to drive its line array loudspeaker systems, and has taken delivery of eight Proel PSW2600 for mid-range duties and eight HPD1500 for HF. In addition to these amplifiers, Omkar Audio has added Proel's ASP48 active splitter,EZ-Curve equaliser and a DSO480 crossover to its stock.

The system was supplied by Global Marketing, Proel's distributor for India. Mr Pandarinath founder of Omkar Audio said, "We are very excited by the sonic quality of these Italian products, and are planning to increase our inventory with more Proel sound reinforcement equipment."

(Jim Evans)

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World - Mojo Barriers worked with the top four highest grossing tours of 2009 according to Rolling Stone Magazine. U2, Madonna, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, and AC/DC have taken the top four positions.

Mojo Barriers proved that the company's line of crowd control barricade is durable and can sustain the rigours of the leading worldwide tours. Metallica, a band with a long-standing relationship with Mojo Barriers are also listed in the Top Ten.

Supplying a 'tour stock' of Mojo Barriers is only the first step in many of these relationships. Additional barricade was often provided for tours with specific large-scale shows, such as Bruce Springsteen at Giants Stadium that required an additional 200m of barricade. The Toronto shows for both U2 and The Jonas Brothers also required additional barriers, with Mojo Barriers representatives 'hands-on' approach evident

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UK - Dominating the late night high street retail bars for the last two decades, Newcastle-based integrators Sound Power has standardised on PR Lighting moving spot and wash lights for its rig dynamics.

Over the years, the company has delivered literally hundreds of sites for leading high street brands, one of them being Yates's - who have an established culture for high-specification technical interiors.

"In fact we have been using Pilot 150s regularly since around 1996. It's a totally failsafe product and we also use them in Yates' bars all the time," said Sound Power director, David Ridout.

When clients require more ambient FX than strident pulsed strobe lighting, Sound Power turn to the Pilot Wash 250 to provide a gentle wash to colour change the walls "When trading patterns change to the evening the constant wash of colour from floor to ceiling is exactly

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UK - Projection artist Ross Ashton helped bring the Cambridge 800 Anniversary year to a spectacular close with two major new light works in the UK's historic University town that were dedicated to Transforming Tomorrow.

Projected onto two sites, Senate House and the adjacent Old School, and the end of Kings College Chapel and the next door Gibbs Building, a combination of PIGI and video projection technologies supplied by E/T/C London were utilised in three separate but related animated shows. These expressed elements of the University's dynamic science and research programmes as art in large format scrolling images.

Ashton was asked back to Cambridge to produce the shows following the success of his work 12 months ago for the Opening Ceremony. This time, the Cambridge 800 Committee decided to expand the scale and scope of the projections and incorporate the Kings Colle

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UK - The Association of Stage Pyrotechnicians has announced the dates of the next batch of Pyrotechnic Safety Awareness training courses in the UK. The dates of the forthcoming courses are as follows:

St Albans - Alban Arena
Date: 1st February 2010
Hosted by: Alban Arena
Contact: David Croom
Telephone: 01727 861078, or email: aatechnical@leisureconnection.co.uk

Brighton - Corn Exchange
Date: Sunday 13th June 2010
Hosted by: Brighton Dome
Telephone: 01273 709709, or email: events@brightondome.org

Coventry - Warwick Arts Centre
Date: Sunday 18th July 2010
Hopsted by: ABTT Summer School
Contact: Geoff Joyce
Telephone: 020 7242 9200, or email: training@ab

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UK - Grant Bales-Smith has been appointed to the newly-created position of Philips Entertainment sales manager - UK, Benelux & Scandinavia, commencing 1 February 2010.

Michael Goldberg, sales director for Europe comments, "The formation of Philips Entertainment as a global group provides us with a great opportunity to continue establishing and building the brands of Strand and Selecon in the European market as leaders in their field. Grant joins us at a time of renewal for Strand and he will lead the sales force in the UK, Scandinavia and Benelux to re-develop a strong dealer network to increase our market share and push new products forward."

For the past eight years, Bales-Smith has been working for Zero 88, initially taking responsibility for the UK market before accepting the further challenge as UK and Southern European sales manager, running the distribution in

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UK - A.C. Entertainment Technologies, an authorised UK distributor for German Lighting Products (GLP), has supplied the new Impression 120 RZ Zoom LED moving head to Fentura Production Services for use on various live events.

Fentura, which primarily services corporate events ranging from concerts to conferences, were very pleased with their hire stock of the original Impression model, so with a growing requirement for a Zoom fixture, decided to check out the 120 RZ.

A.C. arranged a shootout of various LED moving head fixtures for Fentura lighting designer, Tim Matthews. He commented, "We needed a fitting which showed evenness of colour across the beam for the whole zoom range. A comparison to other fixtures proved that the 120 RZ was the superior fitting for our particular requirements."

Matthews recently used the 120 RZ fixtures on the 2009 Christmas Praise

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UK - The four-yearly International Theatre Engineering and Architecture Conference, which takes place in London from 13-15 June 2010, is now accepting delegate bookings, with early online registrations offering the benefit of the lowest costs.

This will be the third three-day event of its kind organised by theatre consultant Richard Brett in London. Venue architects, consultants, designers, managers, equipment manufacturers and technicians from around the world congregate to learn about the latest developments in their fields from international experts. The Conference offers delegates the opportunity to discuss design issues and exchange views with a wide range of knowledgeable practitioners. Previous conferences in 2002 and 2006 were over-subscribed, and judging from the significant number of pre-registrations received so far, places will again be in demand for 2010, say the or

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UK - Following the destruction of Haiti by a powerful earthquake and the desperate need for help in the region by survivors of the tragedy, Hollywood actor George Clooney speedily created the Hope for Haiti Now telethon, featuring some of the world's biggest stars and broadcast every major TV Network in the US.

In order to have the show obtain the best acts possible it was necessary to host the show in New York, L.A. and London. With four days notice the show in London was conceived, designed and realised with the generous help of the production industries.

Tim Routledge, lighting and set designer for the event was contacted by Dionne Orrom of Serpent Productions who was co-producing the event with Ned O'Hanlon on behalf of MTV. The show held at the Hospital Studios in Central London featured Coldplay, Beyonce, Jay-Z, Rhianna, Bono and the Edge from U2.

"We had a

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UK - Summit Steel supplied rigging services plus all trussing and motors required for the 2010 National TV Awards, which moved to London's O2 Arena for the first time. It was hosted by Dermot O'Leary and broadcast live on the UK's ITV1 channel.

Summit was working for the show's producers Indigo Television. The Kent-based company also provides all the in-house rigging services for the O2, so Summit's project managers Jon Bray and Simon Frost and three production riggers joined forces with the 12 Summit-supplied venue riggers to ensure an efficient and tidy operation.

Lighting was designed by Mike 'Sooty' Sutcliffe and supplied by Panalux. It involved the flying of five 'finger' trusses over the stage, complete with two wider 'fingers' which were offstage and at slightly lower heights. A further 17 points were utilised to fly three straight trusses for audience lighting.<

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China - Robert Juliat has supplied a substantial number of 2K profiles, PCs, Fresnels and followspots to the newly completed Hefei Grand Theatre in China's Anhui Province.

Hefei is the political, economic and cultural centre of Anhui Province with a strong history of opera originating in the traditional Lu Opera which has a rich and vivid style evolved from many artistic forms.

The region is very proud of this cultural heritage and has recently completed the construction of the new Hefei Grand Theatre, a 95m USD purpose-built venue covering an area of 57,000m2 and housing a 1600-seater theatre hall, a 1000-seater concert hall and a 500-seater theatre studio.

In total, Robert Juliat supplied 40 RJ714SX2 2000W Profiles, 96 RJ329HF 2000W Fresnels and 120 RJ329HPC 2000W PC units which have been installed across the three auditoria, and 24 RJ306LF 1000W Lutin Fresnels which for t

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The Netherlands - Norwegian projector manufacturer projectiondesign will present its latest innovation in projection technology with the preview of the FR12 Remote Light Source projector at Integrated Systems Europe 2010.

The FR12 Remote Light Source (RLS) concept relocates the lamps from the projector to a rack-mount enclosure up to 30m away from the projector head. Light from the 19-inch rack-mounted RLS illuminates the projector head via an innovative Liquid Light Guide (LLG). The result is a compact, ruggedized, virtually maintenance-free projector head with completely silent operation. There are no limits on installation orientation and lamp maintenance is entirely simplified.

"At the forefront of creating some of the most exciting technologies and innovative products, projectiondesign has made history by producing innovative projectors that are compact, bright and h

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Germany - A rental company specialising in providing sound and light reinforcement for equestrian events has purchased 32 PR Lighting XL1500 EB spots (with electronic ballasts), from German distributor, Focon Showtechnic.

Based in Oldenburg, North Germany, Günther Alberding's company, E Media Design (EMD), required additional lighting for the events and tournaments they support throughout the country. All 32 heads went out on the first job, and operated flawlessly.

The versatile and fully-featured XL1500 is fitted with a powerful 1500W short-arc discharge lamp, optimised by the advanced optical system to achieve maximum brightness. Suspended from the overhead rig, the XL1500's are providing the main spotlight effect and effect projection during the shows themselves - as well as projecting sponsors' logos.

Alberding said that the units' brightness was one of the main reasons

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Money Matters - The music industry is suffering because financial pressures mean money is being put ahead of creativity, Radiohead guitarist Ed O'Brien has warned. "I sense, and many artists sense, that it's become dominated by money, and the need to make more money," he said. "And I think the problem with that is that the creativity's gone out of the industry, the fun." O'Brien is a leading member of the Featured Artists' Coalition, a lobby group for artists' rights, which has often been at odds with the major record labels.

O'Brien's comments were made in a video message to the Midem music conference in Cannes. He said the music industry's current upheavals, however, presented big opportunities to bring creativity back. "What's great about the moment is the very fact that we're living in this time of change, huge uncertainty, and of course these times

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